UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME - Key Persons
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- Graduate Student, Physics
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- Graduate Student, Physics
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- Research Associate, Physics
Education
Ph.D., Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, 2024
M.S., Physics, University of Konstanz, Germany, 2018
B.S., Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, 2016
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- Member of the Associate
- Freimann Assistant Professor, Physics
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- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physics
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- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physics
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- Member of the Associate
- Professor of Physics and Director Institute for Theoretical Science
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- Graduate Student, Physics
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor, Physics
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- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemistry
David Beke obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry in 2017 at the George Olah Doctoral School of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. He worked at the Wigner Research Centre for Physics during his Ph.D. studies, Where he researched the synthesis, properties, and application of ultrasmall silicon carbide nanoparticles. As a postdoc at the Wigner Research Centre for Physics, he studied optically active point defects and quantum bits in silicon carbide and diamond for quantum information processing and quantum sensing. He is also exploring the synthesis of doped spinel oxides for X-ray excited optical emission for photon-induced therapy.
David won the Graduate Student Award of the European Materials Society, the Budapest University of Technology Research Grant, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Early Career Researcher Award, and the János Bolyai Research Scholarship. His research was supported by the Hungarian National Excellence Program and the National Talent program.
Education
Ph.D in Chemistry, George Olah Doctoral School (Chemistry), Faculty of Chemical Engineering and BioengiPhneering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary, 2017.
MSc. Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary, 2010.
Research Interests
Spectroscopy
Materials Science
Solid State Synthesis
Hydrothermal Synthesis
His work focuses on synthesizing and characterizing ultrasmall nanoparticles (below 10 nm) and optically active defects in solids. Small clusters often have surface-dependent and size-dependent optical properties below 10 nm, allowing a wide variety of tuning and exploring new physics and chemistry. Point defects in solids, on the other hand, are atom-like structures trapped inside the solid matrix that can have Magneto-optical properties influencing the behavior of the host material. Combining the two research areas can help new developments and discoveries in therapeutics, imaging, diagnostics, and quantum technology.
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- Graduate Student, Physics
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- Visiting Professor, Physics ( 2023 Summer, 2024 Fall, 2024 Spring )
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- Graduate Student, Physics ( GMU )
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- Graduate Student, Physics
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- Member of the Associate
- Associate Research Professor, Physics
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- Marquez Chair Professor of Physics and Director of Stavropoulos Center for Complex Quantum Matter
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- Graduate Student, Physics
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- Member of the Associate
- Professor of Physics and Director of Graduate Admissions
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- Graduate Student, Physics
Nirmal J. Ghimire received his PhD from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN in 2013. During PhD, he spent three years as a graduate research assistant at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He was a postdoctoral research associate in Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2013 - 2015. From 2015 - 2018 he was a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory. From 2018 - 2023 he was an assistant professor at George Mason University. He joined Notre Dame in 2023, where he is currently an Associate Professor.
Education
PhD, University of Tennessee at Knoxville (2013)
Awards
2021: National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2020: Dean's Award for Early Career Excellence, College of Science, George Mason University
2015: Director's Postdoctoral Fellowship, Argonne National Laboratory
2015: Seaborg Fellowship, Seaborg Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2013: Chancellor's Citation for Extraordinary Professional Promise, The University of Tennessee
2009: Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee
Research Interests
Dr. Ghimire's research focuses in discovering and understanding novel emergent phenomena in quantum materials via designing and synthesizing materials and measuring their magnetic and transport properties. The systems of interest include topological insulators, Dirac and Weyl (semi)metals, correlated topological materials and chiral magnets.
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- Undergraduate Student, Electrical Engineering
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- Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- Physics
Petr Stepanov is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Notre Dame. After his graduation with a PhD degree from the Ohio State University in 2018, Petr joined Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain as a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow focusing on experimental studies of novel low-dimensional materials that feature strong electronic correlations (e. g. moiré superlattices). His research concentrates on probing and manipulating exotic states of matter, such as electron superfluid in unconventional superconductors, using a variety of experimental methods, including low-temperature quantum transport and cryogenic near-field optical microscopy. These research efforts resulted in over 25 peer-reviewed scientific publications in high-ranked journals, including Nature(x2), Nature Physics(x5), PRL(x5) and Science Advances(x1). Petr´s laboratory at the University of Notre Dame will focus on polaritonic properties and local photocurrent studies in twisted multilayer graphene systems, layered unconventional superconductors and transition metal dichalcogenides.
Education
PhD in Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 2018
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- Graduate Student, Physics
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- Research Assistant Professor, Physics
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- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physics
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- Member of the Associate
- Physics
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- Assistant Professor, Physics
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- Member of the Associate
- Associate Research Professor, Physics
Education
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2003
M.S., University of Science and Technology of China, 1996
Research Interests
Structural, electrical, and optical properties of semiconductor alloys and their heterotructures.
Band structure, optical, electrical and magnetic properties of diluted magnetic semiconductors, including bulk and low-dimensional structures.
Growth by molecular beam epitaxy of low-dimensional semiconductor structures.
Physics of low-dimensional systems.
Physics of ferromagnetic semiconductors.
Electrical transport in magnetic semiconductors.
Electronic spin phenomena in semiconductor nanostructures.
Semiconductor/superconductor hybrid structures (e.g., such as the submicron-patterned superconductor-diluted magnetic semiconductor bi-layers).
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- Member of the Associate
- Physics